An information society is a society where the creation, distribution, use, integration and manipulation of information is a significant economic, political, and cultural activity. The aim of the information society is to gain competitive advantage internationally, through using information technology (IT) in a creative and productive way. The knowledge economy is its economic counterpart, whereby wealth is created through the economic exploitation of understanding. People who have the means to partake in this form of society are sometimes called digital citizens. This is one of many dozen labels that have been identified to suggest that humans are entering a new phase of society.
There are various Information Literacy Standards & Models.
The Aim of these S&M are to enable persons to acquire the necessary competencies and become Information Literate citizens.
The Standards provide a means to provide key milestones for students and assess their skill level.
There are various Information Literacy Standards & Models.
The Aim of these S&M are to enable persons to acquire the necessary competencies and become Information Literate citizens.
The Standards provide a means to provide key milestones for students and assess their skill level.
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According to the Census of India of 2001, India has 122 major languages and 1599 other languages are spoken by the 1.38 billion population of India. According to the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution, twenty-two (22) of them are considered as official languages; viz. Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu, Bodo, Santhali, Maithili and Dogri. Hence, Translation services are essential for various sectors. Because most people only know one or two languages, translation services assist them in obtaining necessary information in their own tongue by eliminating the language barrier. In this study, we discussed the translation service in brief, its various types & facets, working techniques and current status of translation services & available centres in India.
An introductory presentation on the concept of Library Classification by Dr. Keshava, Professor, Department of Studies and Research in Library and Information Science, Tumkur University, Karnataka, INDIA.
Political Economy Of Information IndustrySuresh Kodoor
Political Economy of Information Industry - Suresh Kodoor
The transition from a manufacturing and product based economy, which primarily produces tangible goods, to an economy which is extensively 'knowledge-oriented' and dominated by information goods has been dramatic. The key drivers for the transition have been the globalization and the emergence of 'self-acting' transnational finance capital. Under the current system of economic organization, Information has seen increasingly being monopolized, sold and manipulated through restrictive legal regime with a single motive of furthering the profit for transnational corporations. The monopoly rights on the information acts as the key reason behind the ability of the Information technology companies to amass huge wealth and unreasonable profit. These companies are being evaluated in the 'speculative' market rather than based on the real assets helps them to project a highly inflated valuation in the stock market compared to traditional brick and mortar companies. Such speculative evolution and transactions with a disconnect from the real asset and economy leads to the formation of a parallel virtual economy which is vulnerable to the high instabilities and bubble formations.
RELATIONSHIP OF LIBRARY SCIENCE WITH INFORMATION SCIENCELibcorpio
LS relationship IS, Library and Information Science, LIS, Library Science and Information Science, LS vs IS; Relationship of Library science with Information science, Library science, Information science, Library Science Vs Information Science, Similarities and Differences, Library Science vs Information Science, Similarities and Differences, LS relationship IS, Library science, Information science,
According to the Census of India of 2001, India has 122 major languages and 1599 other languages are spoken by the 1.38 billion population of India. According to the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution, twenty-two (22) of them are considered as official languages; viz. Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu, Bodo, Santhali, Maithili and Dogri. Hence, Translation services are essential for various sectors. Because most people only know one or two languages, translation services assist them in obtaining necessary information in their own tongue by eliminating the language barrier. In this study, we discussed the translation service in brief, its various types & facets, working techniques and current status of translation services & available centres in India.
An introductory presentation on the concept of Library Classification by Dr. Keshava, Professor, Department of Studies and Research in Library and Information Science, Tumkur University, Karnataka, INDIA.
Political Economy Of Information IndustrySuresh Kodoor
Political Economy of Information Industry - Suresh Kodoor
The transition from a manufacturing and product based economy, which primarily produces tangible goods, to an economy which is extensively 'knowledge-oriented' and dominated by information goods has been dramatic. The key drivers for the transition have been the globalization and the emergence of 'self-acting' transnational finance capital. Under the current system of economic organization, Information has seen increasingly being monopolized, sold and manipulated through restrictive legal regime with a single motive of furthering the profit for transnational corporations. The monopoly rights on the information acts as the key reason behind the ability of the Information technology companies to amass huge wealth and unreasonable profit. These companies are being evaluated in the 'speculative' market rather than based on the real assets helps them to project a highly inflated valuation in the stock market compared to traditional brick and mortar companies. Such speculative evolution and transactions with a disconnect from the real asset and economy leads to the formation of a parallel virtual economy which is vulnerable to the high instabilities and bubble formations.
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INFORMATION SOCIETY EVOLUTION : INDIA
1. INFORMATION SOCIETY EVOLUTION :
INDIA
INDIRA GANDHI NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY
(IGNOU)
By
PALLAB DAS
Subject – LIBRARY&INFORMATIONSCIENCE
2. Introduction
An information society is a society where the creation, distribution, use,
integration and manipulation of information is a significant economic, political, and
cultural activity. The aim of the information society is to gain competitive advantage
internationally, through using information technology (IT) in a creative and productive
way. The knowledge economy is its economic counterpart, whereby wealth is created
through the economic exploitation of understanding. People who have the means to
partake in this form of society are sometimes called digital citizens. This is one of
many dozen labels that have been identified to suggest that humans are entering a new
phase of society.
The markers of this rapid change may be technological, economic,
occupational, spatial, cultural, or some combination of all of these. Information
society is seen as the successor to industrial society. Closely related concepts are
the post-industrial society (Daniel Bell),post-fordism post-modern society, knowledge
society, telemetric society, Information Revolution, liquid modernity, and network
society .
4. Definition
There are many definitions of the IS (Information Society),
some of them are:
• a society in which the creation, distribution,
diffusion, use and manipulation of information is a significant
economic, political and cultural activity
• Societies that have become dependent upon complex electronic
information networks and which allocate a major portion of their
resources to information and communication activities” (Melody,
1990: 26-7)
• Information Society means social and economic structure, where
productive usage of a resource such as information, as well as
knowledge-intensive production performs a prominent role…and
where individuals, such as consumers, workers, use information
extensively (OECD, 1994)
5. According to Branscomb
• According to Branscomb Information Society is
“a society where the majority of people are
engaged in creating, gathering, storage,
processing or distribution of information”.
7. Webster´s Five Types of Theories on
IS
• Most of the work in information society is futuristic and
technologically deterministic and informed by few
theoretical insights.
• However, Frank Webster (2000) has build a useful
typology to understand IS theories:
– Technological
– Economic
– Occupational
– Spatial
– Cultural
8. Webster´s Five Types of Theories on
IS
Tecnol
ogical
Econo
mical
OccupationalSpatial
Cultural
9. Closely related concepts...
• Post-industrial society
• Post-fordism
• Post-modern society
• Knowledge society
• Network society
Theoretical Foundations:
• Genealogy of the information society concept is usually traced to a
term “post-industrial society- a term first used by sociologist
Daniel Bell (1973). Refer to Frank Webster, Chapter 3 on
elaboration of the post-industrial society.
• Another source of the information society concept is attributed to
debates on the “information economy” developed by American
economists Fritz Machlup (1962) and Marc Porat (1977).
10. Technical &Economical vision of IS
Technological vision of the IS:
• Puts emphasis on ICTs and their transformative powers.
• Technological innovation: new possibilities in transmission and
storage of information.
• Society has moved from the “Industrial Revolution” and now
entered an “Information Age”. “Computer technology is to the
information age what mechanisation was to the industrial
revolution” (John Naisbitt quoted in Frank Webster).
Economic vision of the IS:
• Concerned with “economics of information” (Fritz Machlup).
Assesses the size and growth of the information industries.
• Puts emphasis on the importance of knowledge to the economy.
• Technological innovation central for increasing productivity and
thus for growth of economics and competition between economies
(inspired by Joseph Schumpeter´s thinking).
11. IMPACT OF INFORMATION SOCIETY
ON INFORMATION PROFESSION
• The information profession is the body of people
engaged in the generation, collection, codification,
storage, retrieval, manipulation, management,
dissemination, packaging, evaluation and marketing
of information.
• The primary function of the information profession is to
ensure that society will have the information it needs to
function .
12. Technological Absorption and
Determinism
• The fundamentalists’ view is that the rate of development in
computer and communication technology will soon make the
traditional librarian / information worker obsolete.
• In other words, whenever a new technology is introduced into
the society, there must be a counter balancing human
response. In fact, this has to surface in a greater measure to
avert the misuse of technology .
13. Social, Cultural and educational
Mission
• One of the important roles that the profession might take up is to aid a massive
expansion of updated education system to provide new, mainly information skills,
which will be useful in a smooth transition from an industrial to information
economy.
• In today’s information society, the citizens might face a variety of challenges to
make the most of their role in the knowledge economy. The role of information as
knowledge capital means that there is a danger of inappropriate
commercialisation of information, which can militate against the optimal social use
of this resource.
• In Information Society, it is stated that information and communications
technologies are of increasing importance in many aspects of our lives, and the
ability to access and to comprehend information are valuable skills. Particularly the
growth of Internet and the World Wide Web is a significant feature of the
Information Society. It acts as a microcosm of Information Society trends,
influences, and issues. Its main purpose as a medium of electronic communication
was appropriated by various interest groups, personal, professional, community,
government and business.
14. Information Literacy and IT Literacy
One of the steps towards Information literacy and IT literacy is to
understand the difference between information skills and
technical skills.
• Information skills are the skills required to evaluate the quality
and relevance of information
• on the other hand, technical skills are those skills required to
work with the computer and access electronic information
resources.
In a knowledge economy both sets of skills are essential.
15. INFORMATION SOCIETY in INDIA
• The term Information Society has been used to describe socio-economic
systems that exhibit high employment in information related
occupations and a wide diffusion of infoexpansion of information sector
in developing countries is mainly driven by demand function integrated
with supply function. rmation technologies. After achieving
independence in 1947, India has embarked on industrialisation.
However, the industrialisation has not been accompanied by a structural
shift of labour force from the traditional occupational categories
• It may be stated that in India, only 10% of the work-force
constitute white collar workers, and approximately 60% are
farmers. An estimated 65% of the population are illiterate and
their lack of education prevents them from widely sharing the
benefit of information sector in society.
16. IMPORTANCE OF IT IN SOCIO ECONOMIC
PHENOMENA
• The use of IT increasingly being seen as a powerful agent for
economic development through products and service industries
generated directly or indirectly.
• the government feels that use of IT can help enhance the working of
markets and reduce transaction and coordination costs within and across
firms and institutions, and this is of particular relevance to developing
countries.
• Further applications involving IT have also been considered a source of
productivity gains and quality improvements in areas as varied as
agriculture, manufacturing, infrastructure, public administration and
services such as finance, trade, distribution, marketing, education and
health.
17. The salient features of developments taking place in Information
and Communications Technology (ICT) sector in India
• During the last one decade or so good progress has been
made on many dimensions relating to the ICT sector in the
country
• The size of IT market has increased from US $ 5billion to US $
16.4billion over the same period.
• software exports accounted for 5% of the country’s total
exports in 1997, this share has grown to more than 20% in
2003. In other words,
• During the period 1970-1980, the Indian ICT sector thrived by
selling its abundant supply of low cost skilled programmers to
firms in developed nations.
18. The salient features of developments taking place in Information
and Communications Technology (ICT) sector in India CONTD…
• Indian ICT companies invested in creating high quality software processes
and in pioneering a model of reliable global delivery.
• The shift from being seen as a low cost provider of routine programming
skills to a high quality supplier of advanced applications was really a great
shift.
• Much of this growth has been attributed to the increase in the export of
IT-enabled services such as Business Process Outsourcing (BPO).
• At the same time Indian firms are engaging with customers in more
complex projects and are in many cases moving up the value chain by
Providing IT consulting and value-adding domain knowledge.
• most leading Indian ICT companies are poised for rapid growth, few have
invested in creating their own intellectual property (IP). The revenue
potential of native IP is usually illustrated by comparing the revenues /
employee. Microsoft (approximately US $ 560,000) and Infosys
(approximately US $ 59,000).
19. The salient features of developments taking place in Information
and Communications Technology (ICT) sector in India CONTD…
• It is of interest to note that the domestic investment in ICT has been
stunted. India currently spends a small fraction of its GDP on IT- about
1.1% when compared to US which spends about 5% of its GDP on IT. As
per NASSCOM estimates, it was mentioned that the domestic software
market might decline to around 13% in 2002-2003 from about 18% of the
previous year. Other interesting points that emerge are: in India, the
penetration of PCs (9 per 1000) and the Internet (about 16.5million
subscribers) is very low even when compared with the other developing
nations such as China (PCs 36 per 1000 and Internet users 68milliopn).
One of the reasons for this appears to be the high hardware costs. It is
stated that India has one of the highest tariffs rates for PCs. It is interesting
to note that while it would take about 12 days of per capita income to buy
a PC in USA; it would take four months per capita income in China, and two
years worth of per capita income to buy a similar PC in India! The low level
of PC and Internet penetration in Indian society combined with low
investments in domestic ICT by Indian companies has retarded the growth
of electronic commerce in India.
20. India’s Information Revolution
• “India’s Information Revolution BY Singhal and
Rogers shows that- whether the information
workers will ever out number farmers and
other industrial workers is a problematic, as it
will depend on government policies, world-
wide competition in microelectronics and
other unpredictable factors… as India moves
towards becoming an Information Society”.
21. • During the period 1970-1980, the Indian ICT sector thrived by selling its
abundant supply of low cost skilled programmers to firms in developed
nations. Much of the work was done at customer’s sites and the tasks
largely involved programming legacy applications.
• Though ICT revenues have fallen globally during 2002-2003, the Indian
market indicated a growth of 25% (i.e. the domestic market recorded a
13% and export revenues 30%).
• The development of Indian ICT sector is unbalanced across major lines IT
services. From a global perspective “India has a significant presence in
only two of the ten major IT services – custom application development
and outsourcing. In 2001,
• IT outsourcing (18%), packaged software installations and support (13%)
and hardware support and installation (13%), the Indian market share is
less than 1 %’ (NASSCOM Strategic Review, 2003, p.34).
22. Coclusion
According to the discussion it is proved that the
progress of information society has made
during the last decade, it may not far from
truth to believe that India is on its way to
becoming an information conscious society
and Indian economy might exhibit some traits
of information based economies among the
other developing countries , at least by the
second decade of 21st century.